Barbara Bergmann Quotes

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.

Barbara Bergmann

• Housewife

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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Find
  • Look
  • Nostalgia

• I was one of those kids who always wrote.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Kids

• Podcasting is a personal medium, and I savour those moments where details of the podcasters' lives glint through.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Moments

• I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

  

  David Kay
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Power
  • Simple
  • Consciousness

• Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed

• She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Infinitely

• The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Enjoy
  • Jokes
  • Loser

• There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Opponent
  • Abilities
  • Overestimation

• It is just part of the business. I don't have any hard feelings or any of that. This city is nice. You have a new dome, well not dome, but a convertible stadium. ... Hey, just drop the top and go play football.

  

  Edgerrin James
  • Business
  • Football
  • Stadium

• We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • World
  • Make
  • Live In

• I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Beings

• I have quite dark skin, and when I had my son, I suffered quite bad pigmentation; I had dark patches on my face. Everyone said it would go, but it would take a very long time for them to even slightly disappear.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Father
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Trump
  • Drug

• If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

  

  Wladimir Klitschko
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Fight

• We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

  

  Edith Head
  • Time
  • Today
  • Movies

• The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Food
  • Attention
  • Restaurant

• There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Poetry
  • Housewife
  • Jars

• To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.

  

  Barbara Bergmann
  • Housewife